Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong contender for the couch. Brother Hussein is amiable and popular, but used to be jailed now & then by his father for drinking bouts, is now in retirement on a farm. The eighth son, Ibrahim, fled from Yemen to British Aden a year ago after an unsuccessful attempt to unseat his father. He gave up the title Sword of Islam, called himself Saif el Hag (Sword of Truth...
...Western Stock Growers' Association: "The government should put a ceiling on what we have to buy as well as on what we have to sell." The political opposition was scornful. The government's move, scoffed Tory Leader John Bracken, is "an empty gesture in an almost pathetic attempt to satisfy public opinion. . . . Neither fish nor fowl...
Investigators thought the Follansbee deal was an audacious attempt either to rig the market in Follansbee stock or to grab control of a steel mill to sell output in the grey market (see below). This week the elusive Mr. Fahye, who had been sought for several days, walked into the Attorney General's office. He was promptly jailed on a charge of violating the ban against security trading...
...high, old tottering voice of literary criticism has either ignored it or rated it as the literary equivalent of scooters and bubble gum. Now, Cornell Lecturer David Daiches (Poetry in the Modern World, The Novel in the Modern World), like Stevenson an Edinburgh expatriate, has made an attempt to increase his countryman's stature with a careful, interesting, but rather timid analysis of Stevenson's works...
...Germany, where at first he tried desperately to escape. But he soon discovered that the only meaningful area of existence is man's inner, inviolate consciousness, in which the pleasures of self-absorption are unbounded. Subjected to six months' solitary confinement because of an early attempt to escape, Kaspan learned to live so completely in his interior self-where he "could reach frontiers of consciousness beyond the outermost limits of contemporary ideas"-that he begged his Nazi captors to let him remain in his solitary hole...